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2016 Postmortem

bemildred

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8. McGovern did a lot of good, those delegate selection changes are still filtering through

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Sun Sep 30, 2012, 07:30 AM

Sep 2012

our electoral process. We take them for granted now, but those of us who were there remember that McGovern would never have got the nomination if not for the debacle in Chicago in 1968 and "Clean Gene".

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George McGovern on his 1972 presidential defeat [View all] DonViejo Sep 2012 OP

McGovern had to run against the dirtiest political machine in US history - Nixon's Plumbers and the leveymg Sep 2012 #1

Worked for him and voted for him in my first election. grantcart Sep 2012 #2

I'm sure he knew he would lose, just not so badly Tom Rinaldo Sep 2012 #4

The funny thing is for some reason Spokane WA was a great hot spot for him and he came grantcart Sep 2012 #7

second election for me... oldhippydude Sep 2012 #6

I met George McGovern while he was gearing up but befor getting the Democratic nomination Tom Rinaldo Sep 2012 #3

I had the same warm personal response to him when we chatted briefly in a bank line leveymg Sep 2012 #5

McGovern did a lot of good, those delegate selection changes are still filtering through bemildred Sep 2012 #8